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Financial Statements and Notes
Download easyESEF.xlsb: your first ESEF demo file ready in just a few clicks, and with real figures available on the same working day. Select from 23 European languages. Type or Import/Export CSV files from/to your accounting system.
If troubles downloading, easyESEF.zip is exactly the same but compressed to elude firewalls.
English, Spanish, Deutsch Handbooks.
Creating the Annual Report
The bulk of the Annual Report are chapters with text and images, which do not require ESEF tagging. Also the Audit Report, Cover Page, Signatures, and so on. Prepare them with your Office tools and export them as .pdf .html or .xhtml. The easyCOMPOSER.xlsb tool combines them all, in order, along with the Financial Statements and Notes. This composition is the final Annual Report required by the ESEF format.
Ready to be filed!
English, Spanish, Deutsch Handbooks
A final check for errors or warnings with the easyQC.xlsb tool is recommended.
Download a complete example
The example in easyESEFexample.zip contains all the files and tools required for creating an Annual Report from scratch up to the valid package.zip to be filed.
ESEF Taxonomy illustrated.
Download the 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2017 editions. More than 100,000 labels on 23 languages in an Excel workbook.
Inspired by the IFRS Taxonomy Illustrated, as showing the content of the Taxonomy.
See the ESEF Reporting Manual
“Statistical information”
This open source tool loads the ESEF iXBRL reports using easyREADER.xlsb, with a further mapping into the European Records of IFRS Consolidated Accounts (ERICA) database.
ESEF Quality Control
easyQC.xlsb (Quality Control) is a Review & Consumption Software Certified by XBRL International.
easyQC.xlsb is designed to validate, read, and pass Quality Control to an ESEF report. The operating environment is a classic Excel workbook, with no other knowledge or requirements at all.
English, Spanish, Deutsch Handbooks
XBRL validation with Arelle
easyQC.xlsb integrates the Certified Validator Arelle with the Expert System of ESEF Quality Control developed by easyESEF Ltd. The Arelle Open Source Platform is free to download, easy to install, and autoloads the required XBRL taxonomies. That’s all!
Why Quality Control?
easyQC.xlsb can generate the audit documentation required by the “Commission … Communication … on the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) (2020/C 379/01)“.
See also the “CEAOB – Guidelines on auditors’ involvement on financial statements in ESEF“
Open Source reader .zip .xbri .xhtml .html .htm
easyREADER.xlsb: easy reader of iXBRL instance facts and well as Statements & Linkbases into Excel sheets. easyREADER is an Open Source distributions of the easyQC.xlsb solution, identical in all the aspects except in not perfoming Quality Control.
easyINSTANCE.xlsb is the “lite” version designed to read iXBRL instance facts only (reports type .xhtml .html .htm) into Excel sheets. Linkbases are ignored. easyINSTANCE is the minimalistic Open Source distribution of easyQC.xlsb
easyREADER and easyINSTANCE are both a classic Excel workbook, with no other knowledge or requirements at all.
Download troubles with .xlsb files?
Sometimes, firewalls block the download of .xlsb or other executable files. Try downloading the files easyESEF.zip, easyCOMPOSER.zip, easyQC.zip, easyeasyREADER.zip and easyINSTANCE.zip, which are exactly the same but have been compressed to elude firewalls.
“Excel converter to iXBRL”
Our Open Source RECEiX, the engine powering easyESEF.xlsb, has been selected by ESMA as reporting demonstrator for Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) white papers PoC.
Download the MiCA Taxonomy Illustrated (developed by easyESEF) displayingeach elements in its presentation position, iXBRL characteristics, and the official translation of the label into all European languages.
See our MiCA solutions in full here
Central Electronic System of Payment information (CESOP)
Payment Service Providers (PSPs) in the EU will have to monitor the beneficiaries (payees) of cross-border payments, and they must transmit information quartely, as required by the Taxation and Customs Union.
See our CESOP solutions in full here
Consultancy and training service available
In addition to the support programme, we also offer a consultancy service to be able to solve any doubt or need of those who use easyESEF.
We also develop training activities in ESEF and XBRL if you want to deepen your knowledge of the tool, although the use of easyESEF is totally friendly and no specific computer or technological knowledge is required.
Total confidence: free download
We are so confident in the competitiveness of our software that we offer it completely free of charge, downloadable from our website, and this is in line with our corporate philosophy with its open source roots.
Only if the client is satisfied during the test and if he wants to use it in production with the annual reports, we recommend our support service, maintenance and priority in new functionalities, with costs more than competitive with the market.